Mr. Jim Meade:

I got a cold shiver when I thought the Chairman would ask me could I solve Brexit. I will take the questions as I received them.

In response to Deputy Smyth, the Navan-Kingscourt line has potential. It is not in any of our current planning. It is not part of the NDP. Linking it to some of Deputy Martin Kenny's comments on freight, we have - even my predecessor had - a policy of maintaining the lines and infrastructure we have and not doing what was done in the 1960s, where we closed, abandoned lines and then lost them. Looking to the future, we recognise that many of these lines may become highly relevant. We intend to keep these lines in our ownership and as plans develop for them, be able to move forward with them.

On Kingscourt, currently, there is no plan, either with the Department or with us, and to be honest, we have not put any plan to the Department asking can we now go to Kingscourt. I am happy to start examining it. It would go into the next phase of NDP. I take the underlying point that if we do not start planning for these projects, they will never happen.